I submitted my six most popular toots as a 26-page paper to the Annals of #Mathematics, and it got rejected! Who's going to write the New York Times column praising me?
The hard thing about research #mathematics is knowing whether you're trying to prove something is true or false. I finally figured out that this one thing is true, after months of thinking I'd proved it false.
Now I owe my colleague two beers (one to make up for claiming it when I thought he was wrong).
I am writing something, and I want to refer to the isoceles triangle formed in a regular n-gon by two adjacent vertices and the center. Surely there is a simple name for it…isn’t there?
Just finished a re-read of The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy. Highly recommended if you are interested in mathematics (or computing, there’s quite a bit on public key cryptography). I stopped at A level 20 years ago but can still follow it, and Sautoy is excellent at explaining science to the public.
The word astrolabe comes from the #Greek for ‘star-taker’.
From the 8th century, #scientists & thinkers used instruments like this to gather information relating to timekeeping, positions of sun, stars, #planets, & point to the direction of #Mecca.
> What #Pirsig wanted, as an English teacher, was for students to learn
> to write what they wanted. In the end, this would be what everybody
> else wanted, which was quality.
But there's a difference:
> In mathematics, an essential part of #quality is truth, or
> correctness if you prefer. We take this to be universal.
Not everybody may agree on what is good art, but I think they should
agree on what is correct mathematics.
#mathematics is often presented as a pyramid, where foundations build on themselves, contingent on understanding from prior lessons (algebra to calc to differentials). But oftentimes the most complex tasks for math students isn't calculus or complex analysis, it's doing the basic algebra at the end of it all 😂 #mathmemes
Does your work sit at the intersection of multiple fields of #mathematics? Imagine each field valued fundamental characteristics that the others do not. How do you build a career when those in one such field don't understand or care for the perspective of another?
i have been told its a good idea to make an #introduction post, so hi! i'm phoebe. i don't know much about posting (like, in general 😬), and i'm a bit of a shut in. but humans are my favourite animal, by far; we're beautiful. i love talking about anarchism (specifically #anarchafeminism and syndicalism) about linguistics (especially #conlangs ), #mathematics and philosophy, queer liberation, and a buncha other stuff.